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*''' Cinematography:'''  Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík (Black and white – 16mm film)
*''' Cinematography:'''  Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík (Black and white – 16mm film)
*''' Music:'''  Alfred Newman, Ennio Morricone, Elmer Bernstein, Dimitri Tiomkin (archive music from American and Italian western movies)
*''' Music:'''  Alfred Newman, Ennio Morricone, Elmer Bernstein, Dimitri Tiomkin (archive music from American and Italian western movies)
*''' Editor:'''  Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík
*''' Editors:'''  Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík
*''' Sound:'''  Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík (sound effects from the American movie "The Magnificent Seven" from 1960)
*''' Sound:'''  Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík (sound effects from the American movie "The Magnificent Seven" from 1960)
*''' Producers:'''  Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík
*''' Producers:'''  Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík

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Morganova banda (Czechoslovakia, 1975 / Director: Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík)

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  • Runtime: 13 min.
  • Release Date: 1975

Also known as

The Morgan‘s Bunch (English unofficial title), The Morgan‘s Gang (English unofficial title).

Cast and Crew

  • Cast: Bohumil Kašpárek (Treasurer), Jan Valchář (Morgan), Milan Ridzák, Josef Pelc, Miroslav Šatánek, František Materna, Miroslav Kozelský, Pavel Werner, Zdeněk Gajdoš, Josef Gloziga, Viktor Kozák, Jan Buddeus, Lubomír Berg, Marie Glozigová, Josef Havrlant, Jiří Šprdlík, Marie Kozáková, Zdeněk Kašpárek.
  • Idea: Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík
  • Story: Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík
  • Screenplay: Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík
  • Cinematography: Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík (Black and white – 16mm film)
  • Music: Alfred Newman, Ennio Morricone, Elmer Bernstein, Dimitri Tiomkin (archive music from American and Italian western movies)
  • Editors: Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík
  • Sound: Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík (sound effects from the American movie "The Magnificent Seven" from 1960)
  • Producers: Jaroslav Čvančara, Jiří Šprdlík


Historical background of the film

After the film “The Gold Digger” (1964) by Jan Bartošík, this is another feature-length black-and-white western shot in Suchdol nad Odrou in the southern part of the the district of Nový Jičín city in the Moravian-Silesian region in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) in the production film company “Rodeo film Praha (Rodeo film Prague)” in 1975. This is again an amateur western directed, shot and edited by Jaroslav Čvančara and Jiří Šprdlík. Being an amateur and independent film, the Western has a professional way of shooting and contains many shootouts and action scenes shot while driving a car. It is an action western about the ambush of a stagecoach by Morgan’s gang and the subsequent showdown between outlaws and law enforcement on a lonely farm. Čvančara and Šprdlík often use a hand-held camera (film was shooted in 16mm film) and different shooting angles, which enhances the action, spectacular and exciting spectacle. Scenes of chasing a stagecoach or riding bandits on horses are filmed very dynamically and action-packed. The film was again filmed in the natural exteriors of the village of Suchdol nad Odrou and its surroundings. Individual scenes of the film are accompanied by musical motifs from well-known American and Italian westerns by the composers Alfred Newman, Ennio Morricone, Elmer Bernstein or Dimitri Tiomkin. Among Italian westerns, it is especially Morricone’s leitmotif from “Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo” (1966) by Sergio Leone. In the gunfight scenes, the creators used the sound effects of percussion weapons from the Western “The Magnificent Seven” (1960) by John Sturgess. The one of two filmmakers of this movie Jaroslav Čvančara (*1948) is a Czech writer, publicist, historian, teacher and musician. In the music context he is mainly banjo player and bandleader of the folk and country music group “Taxmeni (Taxmens)”. By Jan Švábenický

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